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Any thick mass of rock which prevents miners from following the lode or vein.
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A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore.
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Ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners.
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A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.
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A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; -- called also false galena. See Blende.
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One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.
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A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners.
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A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.
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A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work.
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A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.
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Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; -- so called among tin miners.
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A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners.
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A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore.
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A certain way or manner of living with respect to conditions, circumstances, character, conduct, occupation, etc.; hence, human affairs; also, lives, considered collectively, as a distinct class or type; as, low life; a good or evil life; the life of Indians, or of miners.
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One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.
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A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones.
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A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores.
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A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.
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Iron pyrites, or arsenical pyrites; -- so called by the Cornish miners.
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Fluor spar; -- so called by Cornish miners.
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